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January On-line Book Club Pick: What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons

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Join Us for January’s On-line Book Club Read!

We’re excited to connect with all of you again in January for our next on-line book club discussion.  If you haven’t been able to listen in live remember you can listen to the episodes here or download the episodes from itunes.  

January’s Pick is What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons!

Join us for our on-line chat and call-in discussion on 1/21 at 7pm EASTERN/4pm PACIFIC.    Festival Founder Heidi Durrow and Workshop & Literary Director Jamie Moore will lead the discussion with your questions. And start sharing your thoughts with our Goodreads Book Club Group in advance of our call in January!

We’re reading What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons for our on-line book club. Join us! #mixedrace #multiracial

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On-Line Book Club for Mixed Race & Multiracial Stories: Matt de la Pena’s Mexican Whiteboy

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mixed remixedWe’ve been having so much fun reading together since we launched our on-line book club last year.  We’re continuing with our pick for October with Matt de la Pena’s Mexican Whiteboy.

 

Join us Sunday October 8 at 4pm PACIFIC on the phone (it’s a community call), listen live on your computer, or talk with us in the chat room to discuss this wonderful book. And remember to visit our Goodreads page and leave a comment as you’re reading and get to know each other in advance of our talk! 

We’re reading @mattdelapena for our on-line book club discussion! Join us! #mixedrace #multiracial

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Our Literary and Workshop Director Jamie Moore and Festival Founder Heidi Durrow lead the discussion.  If you can’t join us live, you can always download the podcast from itunes.  You can also submit any questions or comments you have on our Goodreads book club page.  What’s your favorite line from the book?  What’s your favorite scene?  We’ll read your comments on the air!  We can’t wait to talk with you about another great book about the Mixed experience. 

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Danny’s tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound he loses it.

But at private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny’s brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone else knows exactly who he is before he even opens his mouth. Before they find out he can’t speak Spanish, and before they realize his mom has blonde hair and blue eyes, they’ve got him pegged.

Danny’s convinced it’s his whiteness that sent his father back to Mexico. And that’s why he’s spending the summer with his dad’s family. Only, to find himself, he might just have to face the demons he refuses to see right in front oh his face. And open up to a friendship he never saw coming.

Matt de la Peña is the New York Times bestselling, Newbery Medal winning author of six young adult novels (including Mexican WhiteBoy, The Living and The Hunted) and two picture books (A Nations Hope and Last Stop on Market Street). Matt received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and his BA from the University of the Pacific, where he attended school on a full athletic scholarship for basketball. de la Peña currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his family. He teaches creative writing and visits high schools and colleges throughout the country. 

Mixed Remixed On-Line Book Club Discussion for The Leavers by Lisa Ko July 7!

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We’ve been having so much fun reading together since we launched our on-line book club last fall.  We’ve finally been able to reschedule our discussion of  Lisa Ko’s The Leavers, the latest PEN/Bellwether winning book.

“There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious and moving, and all of that is true, but it’s more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading.”
—Ann Patchett

Join us Friday July 7 at 2pm PACIFIC on the phone (it’s a community call), listen live on your computer, or talk with us in the chat room to discuss this wonderful book. And remember to visit our Goodreads page and leave a comment as you’re reading and get to know each other in advance of our talk! 

We’re reading @iamlisako for our on-line book club discussion! Join us! #mixedrace #multiracial

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Our Literary and Workshop Director Jamie Moore and Festival Founder Heidi Durrow lead the discussion.  If you can’t join us live, you can always download the podcast from itunes.  You can also submit any questions or comments you have on our Goodreads book club page.  What’s your favorite line from the book?  What’s your favorite scene?  We’ll read your comments on the air!  We can’t wait to talk with you about another great book about the Mixed experience. 

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We’re Reading Lisa Ko’s The Leavers: May’s On-Line Book Club Pick at Mixed Remixed!

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We’ve been having so much fun reading together since we launched our on-line book club last fall.  This month we’ve chosen Lisa Ko’s The Leavers, the latest PEN/Bellwether winning book.

“There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko’s novel beautifully written, ambitious and moving, and all of that is true, but it’s more than that now: if you want to understand a forgotten and essential part of the world we live in, The Leavers is required reading.”
—Ann Patchett

Join us Friday May 26 at 1pm PACIFIC on the phone (it’s a community call), listen live on your computer, or talk with us in the chat room to discuss this wonderful book. And remember to visit our Goodreads page and leave a comment as you’re reading and get to know each other in advance of our talk! 

We’re reading @iamlisako for our May on-line book club discussion! Join us! #mixedrace #multiracial

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Our Literary and Workshop Director Jamie Moore and Festival Founder Heidi Durrow lead the discussion.  If you can’t join us live, you can always download the podcast from itunes.  You can also submit any questions or comments you have on our Goodreads book club page.  What’s your favorite line from the book?  What’s your favorite scene?  We’ll read your comments on the air!  We can’t wait to talk with you about another great book about the Mixed experience. 

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We’re Reading Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon Join us 4/23 5PM Pacific

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Join us for our On-Line Book Club Discussion About Mixed Race and Multiracial Books!

We’ve been having so much fun reading together since we launched our on-line book club last fall.  This month we’ve been reading Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything, a heart-wrenching and fast-paced read.  The book has been made into a major motion picture starring Mixed Remixed Festival fave Amandla Stenberg.

Join us this Sunday April 23 at 5pm on the phone (it’s a community call), listen live on your computer, or talk with us in the chat room to discuss this wonderful book.

We’re talking about @nicolayoon Everything, Everything! Listen in!

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Our Literary and Workshop Director Jamie Moore and Festival Founder Heidi Durrow lead the discussion.  If you can’t join us live, you can always download the podcast from itunes.  You can also submit any questions or comments you have on our Goodreads book club page.  What’s your favorite line from the book?  What’s your favorite scene?  We’ll read your comments on the air!  We can’t wait to talk with you about another great book about the Mixed experience. 

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Read Nella Larsen’s Passing: February’s On-Line Mixed Race & Multiracial Book Club Pick

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nella-larsenWe’re excited to read Nella Larsen’s Passing for our next on-line book club pick!  Nella Larsen was a black/Danish writer of the Harlem Renaissance who was writing about issues of the Mixed experience way before her time.  I have read the book at least a dozen times as has Jamie Moore.  So please don’t miss this discussion that we’re planning for Feb. 5 at 4pm Pacific!  

Read Nella Larsen’s Passing with @heididurrow & @mixedreader for our #multiracial on-line book club.

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You can get a copy of the book here OR really anywhere (including used bookstores).  You can also find it as an e-book.  Make sure you join us for the on-going discussion over on Goodreads if you can’t join us on 2/5.  And remember you can also email us questions or post them on Goodreads if you’d like to ask a question or make a comment and you’re not able to join us live.nella-larsen-passport-with-logo

Here is my synopsis of Passing in my NPR commentary on the book:

“Passing is set at the height of the Jazz Age — when Harlem was in vogue. It’s the story of two light-skinned black women whose comfortable lives unravel when they are reacquainted in a whites-only restaurant: Irene, the wife of a prominent African-American doctor and the mother of two boys; and her childhood friend Clare, who is passing as white.

Clare longs to be among black folks again. And at the risk of her racially intolerant husband discovering her real identity, Clare secretly joins Irene and her husband at the best clubs and parties where the Harlem literati and intelligentsia meet. Larsen’s slim book reads like a literary page-turner. Will Clare’s secret be exposed? Will she return to Harlem? Will the women’s friendship survive Clare’s renewed interest in her African-American roots?”

Read Nella Larsen’s Passing for our #mixedrace #multiracial stories on-line book club!

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Learn More About the Mixed Remixed Festival On-Line Book Club

Mixed Remixed FestivalWe choose books that we think will speak to you and deal with mixed-race and multiracial families and people.  Each month we host a call-in podcast so that we can discuss the book together and if we get more interest we will start an on-line Twitter chat.  Can’t make those events? Well then you can keep the conversation going in our new Goodreads Book Club all month long.  Join the group now. 

Your Top Resource for Multiracial and Mixed Race Stories Now is a Podcast Too!

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You kept telling us that you love the Mixed Remixed Festival but you wanted MORE!  And we heard you!  That’s why we have started the Mixed Remixed Festival podcast that debuts this week!

Join the On-Line Book Club Discussions LIVE on the Podcast or Catch Up Via itunes!

1. Multiracial, mixed race, biracial, growing up biracial, biracial identity, multiracial identity, multiculturalism, biracial family, blasian, hapa, mixed race adoptionCatch the wonderful conversation that Festival Founder Heidi Durrow and Festival Literary & Workshop Director Jamie Moore had about the inaugural book club pick, Loving Day by Mat Johnson.  We talk about the characters and issues that Johnson’s excellent story about a mixed-race man confronts when he learns about a daughter he didn’t know as she grew up and tries to help her with her racial identification.  You can listen to the episode here or download it from itunes.  Be on the lookout for the announcement of the next book club pick!

Keep the Conversation Going About Mixed-Race and Multiracial Books on Goodreads all year long!

Yes, we have a monthly call-in and chat discussion, but we’re also on Goodreads and we’ll keep the discussions going there all year-long and always updated.  Join our Goodreads group and stay up to date!

Mixed Remixed FestivalThe Mixed Remixed Festival Podcast Will Also Feature Festival Archives!

We’re also working on sharing the audio from past festival with you so that if you missed it you can listen in.  And if you were there, you can re-live your great festival moments.  Stay tuned!

Listen to the Mixed Remixed Festival podcast! #mixedrace #multiracial

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Join us for the largest gathering of multiracial and mixed-race families and people in June 2017 for the 4th Annual Mixed Remixed Festival.

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